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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 7:17

If thou shall say in thine heart,.... Should have secret thoughts arise in the heart, misgivings of heart, fears and doubts there, which, though not outwardly expressed, might be inwardly retained:

these nations are more than I; seven to one, and perhaps anyone of them as powerful as Israel:

how can I dispossess them? of the land they inherit, and take possession of it.

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See also Deuteronomy 7:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOW... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _say in thine heart say to thyself_, or _think_, or _imagine_; but with the force of _really think_, Deuteronomy 9:4; Deuteronomy 18:21....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IF THOU SHALT SAY IN THINE HEART, THESE NATIONS ARE MORE THAN I; HOW CAN I DISPOSSESS THEM?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) In this chapter the people are warned against temptations to idolatry and enjoined to avoid contact with their idolatrous neighbours: see on Exodus 23:32; Numbers 2...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י תֹאמַר֙ בִּ לְבָ֣בְךָ֔ רַבִּ֛ים הַ גֹּו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE BAN Deuteronomy 7:1 As in the previous chapter we have had the Mosaic and Deuteronomic statement of the internal and spiritual means of defending the Israelite character and faith from the tempta...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WHAT THE LORD DOES FOR HIS PEOPLE Deuteronomy 7:12 The promises to obedience are enlarged upon with touching copiousness. Love, blessing, keeping, peace, multiplication, fruit and health lie along th...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Continuing to deal with the responsibilities of the people as they entered the land, Moses insisted upon the absolute necessity for the maintenance of the attitude of separation to God. Stringent inst...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here again, as before, Israel is reminded of GOD'S former mercies, as the surest encouragement to the expectation of future favors. Reader! I pray you mark it down in the history of your own life-the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 All communion with the Nations is forbidden, 4 for feare of Idolatrie, 6 for the holinesse of the people, 9 for the nature of God in his Mercie and Iustice, 17 for the assurednesse of victorie w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I, how can I dispossess them, get into possession of the country now occupied by them? Little faith on the part of the believers has won m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EXTERMINATION OF THE HEATHEN NATIONS ENJOINED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-26 We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those who do such works. Whatever brings us into a snare, brings us under a curse. Let us...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,... seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 7:17 say H559 (H8799) heart H3824 nations H1471 greater H7227 how H349 can H3201 (H8799) dispossess

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY MUST THOROUGHLY CLEANSE THE LAND OF BOTH ITS PEOPLES AND ITS IDOLATRY, AND HE HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM TO ENABLE THEM TO DO IT (DEUTERONOMY 7:16). This reference to their enemies who hate them l...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Command to be separate people and to destroy opposing nations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Those who are taken into communion with God must have no communication with the unfruitfu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 7:3. _Neither make marriages with them._ See note on Ezra 10:2. Deuteronomy 7:5. _And cut down their groves._ The patriarchal devotion being performed at first on hills, and in places dest...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh._ ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE CHRISTIAN WARRIOR To a man about to journey into a strange country nothing gi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 7:17 Israel is warned three times (see also Deuteronomy 8:17; Deutero

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—Israel is forwarded against the idolatry of the people whose country they were about to enter (_cf_. Deuteronomy 6:14). The nations were more powerful than Israel, but God would delive...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ENTIRE SEPARATION FROM IDOLATROUS NATIONS ENJOINED. DEUTERONOMY 7:1 The Israelites were about to enter on a country occupied by idolaters, and they are commanded not to spare them or to a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter seven, When God brings you into the land and cast out these enemies that are bigger and stronger than you are; And he delivers them from before you; and smites them, and destroys them;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 18:21; Deuteronomy 8:17; Isaiah 14:13;...

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